Hi, everyone! At Wiki Education, we're continuing to serve our community during the COVID-19 pandemic. We recently announced upcoming opportunities** to join our popular 3-week virtual courses with the Wikidata Institute. We'll meet twice a week with participants—primarily librarians, archivists, and other data professionals. We've worked with several people we met through this listserv, and if you're looking for virtual projects and networking opportunities, we'd love for you to join us.
If your GLAM institution has a special collection or focus you wish the world knew more about, Wikidata may be the right platform for you. By sharing related institutional data on Wikidata, the open data repository behind Wikipedia, you can use your institution’s unique identifier to bring exposure to your data, drive traffic to your website, and situate your institution as a leader with that collection. With online meetings twice a week via Zoom, the Wikidata Institute gives you one-on-one coaching from our Wikidata expert, the chance to conceptualize online projects for your institution, and a network of your peers cheering you on. (Read more about how one of our course alumni has made Wikidata invaluable to advancing her mission at the Met.***) Some things we love about Wikidata: * Wikidata is an accessible platform for learning and developing linked data and linked data skills * Adding your collection data to Wikidata (or enhancing your collection's data with data from Wikidata) will help with visibility, discoverability, and representation online * Wikidata’s Query service has powerful visualization tools which can reveal new insights about your collections and collection data * Behind Wikidata is an open community of linked data enthusiasts. Joining this community will allow you to contribute and participate in discussions that will have an impact on knowledge creation, Wikipedia, and open data across the internet If you or your colleagues are interested in joining, please take a look at the upcoming opportunities. We have group discounts and limited financial aid available for anyone without access to professional development funds during this difficult time. I hope you'll join us and consider sharing with your networks. Course details are available at learn.wikiedu.org. Best, Jami ** http://learn.wikiedu.org/ *** https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/07/07/extending-the-mets-reach-with-wikidata/ -- Jami Mathewson Director of Partnerships Wiki Education j...@wikiedu.org <j...@wikiedfoundation.org> User:Jami (Wiki Ed) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jami_(Wiki_Ed)> Pronouns <https://www.mypronouns.org/>: she/her/hers _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
